The effect of semantic mapping to Students’ reading comprehension at grade xi SMK Negeri 1 Batangtoru

This research discussed about students’ problem in reading comprehension at grade XI SMK Negeri 1 Batangtoru. The problems of the research are students’ lack of concentration, lack vocabulary, and lack of motivation and attention. The researcher formulated the problems became one questions: is there effect of using semantic mapping to students’ reading comprehension at grade XI SMK Negeri 1 Batangtoru?.This research intended to know the description of the effect of using semantic mapping to students’ reading comprehension at grade XI SMK Negeri 1 Batangtoru. The research was conducted by quantitative method. The population of this research was 142 students of the grade XI. Then, the sample of research intended 62 students. Next, the pre-test and post-test about reading were given to the respondent. To analysis the data, the researcher used formulation of Ttest. After calculating the data to show the description of the data was found that the mean score of experimental class higher than control class (82.19 > 56.40) and the score of t0 was bigger than ts (5.06 >3.46). It means that the hypothesis was accepted. It was concluded that there was a significant effect of using semantic mapping to students’ reading comprehension at grade XI SMK Negeri 1 Batangtoru. Finally, the researcher suggested using semantic mapping was effective to increase the reading comprehension